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HR 766 · in committee · significant

SEWER Act

What this bill does

  • The bill gives the CDC legal authority to run a national wastewater monitoring system that tracks disease pathogens.
  • Public health departments and CDC partners are affected as they coordinate wastewater sampling and disease surveillance.
  • The bill expands the existing program to monitor COVID-19, flu, mpox, dengue, West Nile virus, and RSV.

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    How should the CDC balance wastewater monitoring costs across rural versus urban communities that have different infrastructure capabilities?

  2. 02

    What safeguards would prevent wastewater pathogen data from being misused to target or stigmatize specific neighborhoods or populations?

  3. 03

    Which diseases currently spreading should be prioritized for monitoring, and what evidence determines when a new pathogen gets added to the system?

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Sponsor · D-CA-42

Robert Garcia

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Introduced 2025-01-28

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-01-28 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

  2. 2025-01-28 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  3. 2025-01-28 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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